to
work at once. Some of them went down into the earth to find food and
water for the whole plants, and the others reached upward to the air and
sunshine, and spread out beautiful, long green leaves.

Each day the plants grew taller and taller, and new buds came that
blossomed into flowery tassels that waved over the tops of the plants.
These tassels were fall of a golden dust called pollen, and as the wind
blew it to and fro, some of the tiny grains found little green cradles
along the sides of the plants, and crept into them. There they stayed,
growing strong and round, until one midsummer day the plants were full
of ripe, sweet ears of corn.

When were the five little brothers, do you ask? Why, they were five
little kernels of Indian corn that Farmer Lane planted one spring
morning, and each beautiful stalk of corn was the new life the
earth-worm told them about. God had taken care of them, and takes care
of of His little children, too.

Buttercup Gold

Did you ever hear of the pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow?
Some people think it is there now, but they are mistaken, for a long
time ago somebody found it. How he happened to find it, nobody knows,
for a great many people have searched in vain, and have never even been
able to discover that the rainbow has any ends at all. The man who found
it was very selfish and did not want anybody to know, for fear they
might want some of his money. So one night he put it in a bag, which
he slung over his shoulder, and walked across the fields toward a thick
wood where he meant to hide it.

In the bag was something beside the gold--something so small that the
greedy man in his hurry had not noticed it. It was a hole, and, as he
walked on, one by one the gold coins fell out into the grass. When he
reached the wood and found all of his money gone, he hurried back to
search for it, but something strange had happened. It was a midsummer
night, and the fairies were having a dance out in the meadows. They were
good, loving little people, and despised selfishness above everything.
One little fairy spied the glittering gold among the grasses. She had
seen the greedy man passing by, and knew he would soon be back to hunt
for his treasure. "It will do him no good," she said, "if he hides
it away, and neither will it help anybody else. I will change it into
something that will give joy to rich and poor."

When the greedy man reached the meadow he could see no gold mo